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Police shot and killed a South Carolina man during an undercover marijuana sting — and his family’s attorney said evidence shows the 19-year-old was shot twice in the back from near-point blank range. Zachary Hammond was shot to...

A former employee of a cupcake shop in suburban St. Louis has been given the go-ahead to sue his former employer for discrimination and retaliation after he was fired for complaining about a fellow employee using the N-word and other slurs at...

Ted Cruz, a Republican presidential candidate and Texas senator, says his father doesn’t believe in birther conspiracies about President Barack Obama despite comments he made on camera. His father, conservative pastor Rafael Cruz, has...

An Oklahoma woman who revealed sexual abuse by elders in the Jehovah’s Witnesses has found herself bombarded by creepy and threatening graffiti, Reveal reports. Debbie McDaniel, now 46, had been ousted from the Jehovah’s Witnesses...

Walter Palmer, the U.S. dentist who killed the lion Cecil in Zimbabwe, wanted to shoot a “very large elephant,” his guide and professional hunter Theo Bronkhorst told the Daily Telegraph Thursday. Palmer has gone underground amid an...

States have tried all sorts of things to prevent women from having abortions. They’ve enacted waiting periods, ultrasound laws and parental notifications. They’ve passed laws that force doctors to lie to women and force women to visit with...

People from all over the country offered to help pay the $1 million bond for the former campus police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist. Ray Tensing, who was fired as a University of Cincinnati police...

The Texas county where a black woman died in an apparent jail suicide that garnered national attention had been cited by a state monitor for not doing enough to keep an eye on inmates and properly filling out intake forms, an official said on...

WALLINGTON — Dash cam video obtained by Eyewitness News shows a July 7 road rage incident unfold from Passaic to Wallington. Police told the news program a government security guard who was heading home from work stopped to let a...

A Georgia sheriff who has a Batman statue in his office, hands out coins bearing his name and the Batman logo, and drives around town in taxpayer paid for black Camaro, is being scrutinized over his spending habits as a grand jury prepares to...

The Big 4 accounting firms, their trade association and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. have pulled back on fundraising for U.S.Rep. Scott Garrett (R-5th Dist.) after he reportedly made anti-gay remarks in a closed-door meeting with fellow Republican...

A Maine woman might not have lost her battle with heroin addiction if the state’s governor had not vetoed Medicaid expansion, her ex-husband said in an unusual obituary. Coleen Sheran Singer overdosed Christmas morning at 32, although her...

Astronomers said Thursday they had found a planetary system with three super-Earths orbiting a bright, dwarf star — one of them likely a volcanic world of molten rock. The four-planet system had been hiding out in the M-shaped, northern...

Israeli prosecutors on Thursday charged a third Jewish suspect in a probe linked to a June arson attack at a shrine where Christians believe Jesus performed the miracle of loaves and fishes. Authorities accused Moshe Orbach of writing and...

America’s obsession with sex is rivaled only by America’s obsession with repressing sex—except for the millions of Americans who find the whole thing simply uninteresting. From Madison Avenue to Sunset Boulevard, from the Las Vegas Strip to...